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post office — ˈpost ˌoffice noun [countable] 1. a place where you can buy stamps, send parcels etc: • Customers have complained about the length of time spent queuing at their local post office. 2. the Post Office the national organization in several countries … Financial and business terms
Post Office Ltd — For the UK s mail delivery service, see Royal Mail. Post Office Ltd Type Wholly owned subsidiary Industry postal service Founded 1986 … Wikipedia
Ankh-Morpork Post Office — The Ankh Morpork Post Office is featured in Going Postal , one of Terry Pratchett s Discworld series of books and the 2007 Discworld Diary, based on previous mentions in Men at Arms and the 1998 diary.The Post Office, which was once a vibrant,… … Wikipedia
Central Post Office Building — Infobox Historic building caption = Central Post Office Building name = Central Post Office Building location town = Stockholm location country = Sweden architect = Ferdinand Boberg client = Postverket engineer = F. G. A. Dahl construction start… … Wikipedia
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Green Paper on Postal Reform — The Green Paper on Postal Reform (Department of Trade and Industry, 1994) was a United Kingdom government draft plan to privatise and regulate the UK postal services. It set out various options, the key points of the plan being,*writing into law… … Wikipedia
Keal Cotes — Infobox UK place official name= Keal Cotes country= England region= East Midlands population= Approx 100 os grid reference= TF365611 latitude= 53.125 longitude= 00.038 map type= Lincolnshire post town= SPILSBY postcode area= PE postcode district … Wikipedia
Lamp box — Lamp boxes are the smallest of the post boxes used by the Royal Mail in the UK, by its counterparts in the Commonwealth of Nations and also by An Post in Ireland. Their name derives from the fact that they were designed to be affixed to lamp… … Wikipedia
Parcelforce — Infobox Company name = Parcelforce Worldwide type = Limited genre = foundation = 1990 founder = location city = Milton Keynes location country = United Kingdom location = origins = key people = area served = industry = Postal Service products =… … Wikipedia
Hastings Lees-Smith — Hastings Bertrand Lees Smith (January 26, 1878 – December 18, 1941) was a United Kingdom Labour politician who was briefly in the Cabinet in 1931. He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (as chairman of the… … Wikipedia
